Improvement in attaching horn handles to knives



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MILES BRADLEY, OF WESTPOBT, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING HORN HANDLES TO KNIVES.

Specitication forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,222, dated August 8, 1865.`

To all whom it may concerne Be it known that I, MILES BRADLEY, of Westport, in the county of Fairfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Imp'oved Mode of Applying Horn Handles to Machctes and other Knives; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eXact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accconipanying drawings, forming part ot' this specification, in Which- Figure lis a side View of a machete having a handle applied to it according to myinvelr tion; Fig. 2, a side view ofthe same with the horn 0r stock for the handle applied ready for compressing or molding into proper form and riveting; Fig. 3, a transverse section ot' Fig. 1, taken in the line .r fr, Fig. 1.; Fig. 4, a plan or top vievi7 of the die by which the handle is molded or compressed into proper form and riveted at the Sametime; Fig. 5, a transverse section of Fig. 4, taken in the line y y.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Thisinvention consists in applying horn han dles to machetes and other knives hy placingofthe desired size and shape, and is placed at each side of the tang B ofthe implement, two or more pieces being at each side ofthe tang, as desired. The external pieces, however, com,- pose the main portions of the handle, the internal ones serving for what may be termed a filling,77 and they may be of greater or less dimensions, as circumstances may require. This l horn, previously to being applied to the tang, is softened by immersion in hot water, or by any other proper means, and rivets Care passed transversely through it and the tang, the rivets being provided Wit-h heads aat one end, and having washers b on their opposite ends, as shown in Fig. 5.

I) D'v represent two dies, one, D, Working within the other, D. These dies are made ot' a shape corresponding to the desired shape ot' the handle, and the die D is perforated with holes c to receive the portions of the rivets C above or beyond the washers b.

The horn A is compressed or molded into proper iorm hy means of the dies D D', and by the pressure of the dies the heads a of the rivets are countersunk into o'ne side ot' the handle and the washers b conntersunk into the opposite side, as shown in Fig. 3. By this arrangement it will be seen that the handles are applied to the implements in a very expeditions and economical manner, and the handles will not only he perfect, but will also be uniform in appearance, and in consequence of the horn handle having a joint both at the front and rear ot' the tang the contingency of split\ ting due to shrinkage is avrided.

1 would remark that the. ends of the rivets C beyond the washers b are, after the handles are molded, cut oli' and filed iiush with the washers.

Havingthns described inyiuvention. l claim. as new and desire. to secure by Letters Patent- By means ofa die, molding or compressing the horn into the desired form while on the tang and countersinking the heads ot' the rivets andthe washers at one and the same operation, substantially as set forth.

MILES BRADLEY. Witnesses:

WM. F. MGNAMARA, M. M. LIVINGSTON. 

